[dcchairs2016] UbiComp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School notification - #104

[dcchairs2016 at ubicomp.org]

Dear Alex Mariakakis,

Please find enclosed the review for your accepted submission for the Ubicomp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School.

104: "Ocular Symptom Detection using Smartphones"

Please read the reviews and instructions that the committee members included in it carefully, as they contains necessary further steps to ensure your DC paper submission appears in the program. Any of the committee instructions has to be considered as required for your final version.

As a reminder, the final version ("camera ready" version) is due no later than Wednesday, July 17th, 2016 at 11:59pm PDT. We will send more instructions about how to upload the camera-ready version of your paper before the deadline.

Thank you for submitting your work to UbiComp 2016, and congratulations again on your acceptance to the Ubicomp 2016 DS. We look forward to seeing you in Heidelberg in September!


Max Mühlhäuser
Nadir Weibel
Rene Mayrhofer

UbiComp 2016 Doctoral School Chairs


------------------------ Submission 104, Review 1 ------------------------

Title: Ocular Symptom Detection using Smartphones


Confidence

   3  (Very confident - I am knowledgeable in the area)

Contribution to UbiComp

   This work describes a focused approach to exploit mobile phones cameras
   to support mHealth intervention based on computer vision approaches for
   three use cases: intraocular pressure, jaundice, and cognitive
   functioning.

Overall Rating

   5  (Probably accept: I would argue for accepting this paper.)

The Review

   This submissions lays out a clear path, driven by clinical needs, to
   implement three novel approaches to support the investigation of ocular
   symptoms detection through mobile phones cameras and computer vision.

   The three projects are well defined and grounded in clinical
   collaborations, and they seem to have a well planned ahead contribution.
   What is weaker, and perhaps the DC could help with, is the overall
   framing of the research around and beyond the three specific projects.
   Although it is good to have very specific applications, it is unclear how
   this work generalizes into a PhD thesis.

   The student is well positioned in the field and already has some work in
   the specific directions described that is ongoing. Although perhaps more
   advanced than others, he could benefit of the expert panels at the DC to
   better frame the overall research into a thesis.


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   Camera-ready requirements: In order to better fit with the requirements
   in the call for papers, please make more evident what research have been
   accomplished and what is planned for the camera ready version of the
   paper.